Today's News

If your youngster (age 4-12) is interested in playing soccer this school year but you haven’t gotten around to registering, you’re in luck.

The Las Vegas Youth Soccer League is accepting late registrations into the month of September at the cost of $65 per child. Late registrants will be placed on a waiting list to fill spots on teams as they become available.
Registration fee for each child will not be charged until they are placed on a team.

Luna Community College board of trustees is expected to name committee members for the presidential search committee on Tuesday. During a board meeting last Tuesday, board chairman Dan Romero said that each of the seven trustees would recommend an individual from their district to serve on the committee.

The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission recently voted to impose new restrictions on Mora County’s ambulance operations, but anyone who’s been following the county’s struggles in this area knows rules, directives and fines don’t create resources.

Las Vegas Optic reports
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Wednesday that federal land managers will be working to finalize a process for considering whether to accept a donation of land that will allow public access to a landlocked parcel of federally protected wilderness in northern New Mexico, according to the Associated Press.

Zinke’s announcement comes nearly two weeks after he toured the area with members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation and local officials.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump escalated a stunning feud against his top Senate partner Thursday, suggesting Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might have to think about stepping aside if he doesn’t deliver on the president’s agenda of health care, taxes and infrastructure.

The Associated PressNavajo Nation upgrading alerts
GALLUP — A Navajo Nation official says the tribe is still in the process of buying software for an Amber Alert system for the reservation months after a purchase was under way in the wake of controversy following the killing of a girl.

Public Safety Division Director Jesse Delmar told the Gallup Independent on Wednesday that the tribe is considering different software vendors that they will interview.